Chocolate Amaretto Torte in a cardboard box labeled Hank's Cheesecake, St.

Hank's Cheesecakes, LLC recalled this product and the FDA reported the enforcement action on 3 July 2019 as Class II. The recall was initiated by the firm. Packaged cheesecakes are distributed with no labels indicating the ingredients or the major food allergens they contain.

The record

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Product

Chocolate Amaretto Torte in a cardboard box labeled Hank's Cheesecake, St. Louis Missouri 63117

Reason for recall

Packaged cheesecakes are distributed with no labels indicating the ingredients or the major food allergens they contain.

Recalling firm

Hank's Cheesecakes, LLC

Firm location

Richmond Heights, Missouri, United States

Classification

Class II

Status

Terminated

Recall number

F-1501-2019

Quantity

207 cheesecakes (total)

Distribution

Distributed to food service in Missouri and Illinois.

Initiated

31 May 2019

Reported by FDA

3 July 2019

Terminated

4 May 2023

Firm notified by

Letter

Product codes

No code

Reading this record

Five things about this record are not in the record itself, and each one changes how it should be read.

• Class II means the FDA judged a remote probability of serious harm, or a probability of temporary or medically reversible harm. The class is assigned by an agency health hazard evaluation under 21 CFR 7.41, not by the firm.
• The firm started this recall itself. Most FDA food recalls are voluntary, and a recall is a food safety plan working rather than failing. The circumstances in which the agency asks for one instead are set out in 21 CFR 7.45.
• This is one of 23 records covering the same recall event. The FDA opens one enforcement record per product code, so a recall of a product line appears here many times. Counting these records as 23 separate recalls, which almost every published figure does, overstates it by a factor of 23. Every product code in this event is listed together on the record that covers the whole recall, which is the page a search engine is pointed to for all 23 of them.
• The recall ran for 3.9 years, from 31 May 2019 to termination on 4 May 2023. Termination means the agency judged that all reasonable effort had been made, under 21 CFR 7.55, and it says nothing about whether product remained in circulation.
• The FDA published the enforcement report 5 weeks after the firm began the recall.
• Recalls of cheese run a median of 7 months, so this one was longer than usual for its category. Cheese dominates Listeria recalls among dairy products because soft and semi-soft varieties hold enough moisture for the organism to grow at refrigeration temperature, and because most are eaten without any further cooking step.

Filed under cheese and snacks and confectionery. A product can sit in more than one.

Other cheese recalls

These are the closest records in the corpus: the same kind of food. Unlike the firm’s own records below, they come from different companies, which is what makes them a pattern rather than a history.

Other records from Hank's Cheesecakes, LLC

The FDA opens one enforcement record per product code, so several of these are frequently one recall event. 22 other records name this firm.

All 23 records for Hank's Cheesecakes, LLC

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